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Many jPOS based applications have to deal with accounts and have
to accurately and efficiently keep track of its transactions and
balances.

I’ve found myself writing ad-hoc transaction logging software using
custom database schemas and balance calculation strategies over and
over, and I think this may have happened to many of you as well.

While writting custom logic is certainly a feasible option and may
seem like the simplest approach, code that looks okay in a test
environment may degrade once you load it with hundreds of millions of
transactions. Code that passes all tests in a development environment
may encounter nasty problems under heavy load, caused by race
conditions, poor performance, etc.

And then you need a myriad of supporting applications for extracts,
analysis, reporting, data-entry, UI, etc. that have to be customized to
your unique data model.

miniGL attempts to address this problem by providing a minimalistic
solution to the recurring task of safely and efficiently keeping
track of accounts.

While doing so, miniGL explores the possibility of leveraging
double-entry accounting methods in situations were one would
tend to use just single-entry.

Read the rest here.

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